Through hyper-saturated multimedia portraits, Amani Lewis celebrates the beauty, dignity, and complexity of Baltimore’s Black community. Layering digitally manipulated photographs with vivid applications of paint, pastel, glitter, and embroidery, Lewis constructs richly textured surfaces that counter the reductive and often negative portrayals of Blackness circulated in mainstream media.Lewis earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has exhibited nationally, with shows in Baltimore, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and New York. Their practice extends beyond representation into direct community engagement: when a portrait is sold, Lewis shares a portion of the proceeds with the sitter, positioning each subject as an active collaborator and redistributing resources within the community that sustains the work.